University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 112

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Club Baseball Team Making Big Strides!e baseball club is one of the newest club teams, but it is already a com-petitive group.

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As technology becomes an increasingly more vital part of our daily lives, the need for students to develop technological skills increas-es. !e Arkansas Legislature passed House Bill 1785, also known as the “Digital Learn-ing Bill,” on April 5, with the intention of providing digi-

tal learning opportunities to students in public schools.

!e bill requires that all public high schools in Arkan-sas have a mandatory digital learning course in their cur-riculum starting next year. !e bill’s sponsor, Rep. Dan M. Douglas, of Bentonville, believed it would serve as an opportunity to provide even those not planning on going to college with the ability to apply their computer skills in the real world.

Mike Duncan, an instruc-tional IT specialist for the UA, thinks that the bill is necessary for proper student growth.

“I do think there is a need for this bill,” Duncan said, “and we are still seeing stu-dents without the necessary technical skills they need to be successful in college.”

Opponents of the bill in the Arkansas Legislature, such as Rep. John Payton, argued that schools with-

out su"cient Internet ac-cess would not be able to e"ciently implement the program. Issues of how to pay for the new digital infra-structure also arose.

Digital learning courses are meant to encompass skills in interacting with Micro-so# programs and desktops as well as overall computer competency. Such courses al-ready exist at the UA, taking

Class Required forHigh School Students

An educational busi-ness event will take place for third- to sixth-graders Satur-day. Willy Walton’s Chocolate Factory, sponsored by Enac-tus, hopes to teach students about global chocolate pro-duction and basic business principles.

!e event covers a broad range of business topics, in-cluding budgeting, adver-tising, currency and ethics. Participants will work with college students to create a chocolate-factory prototype and a PowerPoint to show their business plans. !e event lasts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a lunch break that is paid for in the fee that ranges from $20-35, depending on how many children from the same family are attending.

!e event will be in the Business Building, Room 202. Registration before the event is encouraged because of lim-ited space, although there will be registration from 8:30-9 a.m. the day of the event.

Enactus, formerly known as Students In Free Enter-prise, is centered around giving college students op-portunities to learn, practice and teach free-enterprise principles. Enactus stands for

Educating Children in Business

Newly elected Chair of Sen-ate Amy West discussed chang-es that will take place in the upcoming year, including both structural and policy changes within the ASG Senate.

“My main project for next year has been working at re-structuring the Senate,” West said.

Right now in Senate there is a rule that every two sena-tors must write at least one bill. Originally, this rule was estab-lished in an e$ort to encour-age senators to be active and get things accomplished, West said.

“However, I do not foresee that being the policy next year,” West said. A policy like this can end up forcing senators to write bills just to write bills, West said.

Instead of writing bills to

genuinely change the UA, sena-tors end up rushing to write bills at the end of the year just to meet this policy, West said.

Committees o#en run out of time and don’t even get the chance to meet and discuss a bill, West said.

“Next year, one of the goals will be to make committees more active,” West said. Instead of giving a bill requirement to individual senators, it might

Chair of Senate Starts with Senate Policies

ASG voted to pass a bill Tuesday night to raise funds for the development of an emergency “Blue Light” app and an app to make Safe Ride more e"cient and ac-cessible.

!e “Blue Light” app “will allow students’ phones to act as a one touch emer-gency alert system,” accord-ing to the bill.

Sens. Mark Cameron and Holden Warren au-thored this bill and are working with Chris Nixon and the UA’s department of digital design and develop-ment as well as student web designers.

ASG wants to model this app a#er an app used at the University of Florida, said Sen. Mark Cameron.

“UAPD has approved this app and is 100 percent behind it,” Cameron said.

During the meeting, however, one senator raised the issue that using an unli-censed web designer may be against UA policy.

However, Sen. Cameron said he has been in contact with ITS and with the de-partment of digital design and development, and this issue has not been raised in any of their discussions.

If it does happen that the

student designers need to acquire a license, this is a simple process that can be taken care of, Cameron said.

“We are hoping to have this app ready by the end of this summer,” Cameron said.

!e other aspect of this bill concerns the develop-ment of an app to improve the Safe Ride program.

!is app “will allow students to electronically transfer their student in-formation, location and de-sired destination directly to Safe Ride drivers,” accord-ing to the bill.

Additionally, ASG voted on a resolution to minimize tra"c delays at the Harmon Avenue Parking Facility and improve pedestrian safety.

A#er hearing that the parking and transit commit-tee voted to unanimously in favor of the bill, the Senate voted to pass this bill.

!e bill addresses safety concerns for pedestrians because of tra"c and delays directly following the end of class periods.

One possible solution that may be presented to administration is the reso-lution to build a new pedes-trian bridge, said Sen. James Wesolowski, author of the bill.

“!is would have e$ect

ASG Supports Blue Emergency App

BILL REQUIRES HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO TAKE A DIGITAL CLASS

Kathleen Pait Sta# PhotographerStudents use laptops to take notes and participate in class activities. !e Arkansas House recently passed a bill that requires high school students to take a digital learning class.

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Amy West Sta# PhotographerAmy May West stands outside Old Main, !ursday, April 11. She was chosen as the Chair of Senate for the 2013-2014 ASG year.

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be more bene%cial to give this kind of requirement to com-mittees themselves, West said.

“We want to structure ASG more like the national govern-ment,” West said. A lot of the grunt work and research needs to be done by the committees before the bills reach the &oor, West said.

“A committee is what drives a well-rounded bill,” West said. “One person cannot look at a bill from all the angles.”

In addition, ASG hopes to be more e"cient in allocating funds next year, West said.

“We have a lot of funds le# over, and we want to put that money to use,” West said. “We want to %nd ways to let stu-dents know that ASG has funds available for them.”

Another recent develop-ment that will be bringing a lot of change to ASG in the next few years is that senators are working toward putting a stu-dent on the UA board of trust-ees, West said.

Sens. Ethan Dollar and Vic-toria Maloch authored a bill to support whatever steps nec-essary to “establish a student board member of the Univer-sity of Arkansas Board of Trust-ees,” according to the bill.

!is would be key to having someone in the decision-mak-ing process who has a student perspective, Dollar said.

Dollar and Maloch spoke with Chancellor G. David Gearhart and various other administrators and began dis-cussing the measures that will be necessary to set this project in motion.

One of the biggest obstacles is that in order to increase the size of the board of trustees, there would have to be an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution, Dollar said.

“!is is a big project and one that I will probably be working on until I graduate,” Dollar said.

the form of an already-man-datory eight-week computer competency course for all Walton College of Business students. However, students who score high enough on the pre-test for the course would be exempt from the program and its subsequent fees.

!is goes back to the real aim of the initiative, which is to increase the computer

skills of students before they enter the college environ-ment.

“I think it must be man-dated because colleges are expecting entering fresh-man to have already mas-tered these skills,” Duncan said.

Another proponent of the bill, Rep. Anne Clem-mer, also spoke in favor of the initiative, citing college-

age students who are un-able to attach documents to emails.

Duncan also said stu-dents become should be-come familiar with “basic computer o"ce applications, installation, con%guration and Web usage.”

Starting in 2014, a one-year trial period will com-mence in the state to gauge the bill’s e$ectiveness.

Caroline Potts Sta# PhotographerArt History faculty and students meet at Coco’s Lebanese Cafe, Tuesday, April 16, to highlight the historical presence of art on UA campus and discuss research. !e event was free to students and included free food from the restaurant.

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Caroline Potts Sta# PhotographerDominique Cooper shows students around the newly constructed Domain apartments, Tuesday, April 16. !e apartment complex will open to students in Fall 2013.

Moving on Up

ASG Legislation on Second Reading:Bill No. 23 – A Bill to Allocate Funds for the De-velopment of a Safe Ride and “Blue Light” AppResolution No. 54 – A Resolution to Alleviate De-lays and Improve Pedestrian Safety at the Harmon Avenue Parking FacilityResolution No. 55 – A Resolution to Remove Discretion from Hiring Requirements for Supple-mental Instruction LeadersResolution No. 56 – A Resolution to Support the Installation of a Crosswalk Signal at the Intersec-tion of Leverett and MapleResolution No. 57 – #e Arkansas Flagship Cam-pus Brand Preservation Resolution of 2013Resolution No. 58 – A Resolution in Support of the University System World CampusResolution No. 59 – A Resolution to Support the Establishment of Safe Smoking on CampusBill No. 28 – #e Fresh HOGS Codi"cation Bill of 2013Resolution No. 60 – A Resolution in Support of an OnlineNo. 60 – A Resolution in Support of an Online Syllabus BankResolution No. 61 – A Resolution to Universalize Grading in the Fay Jones School of ArchitectureResolution No. 62 – A Resolution to Support Interlibrary Loan Use for Graduate Students in Obtaining Books Required by Syllabi

Students can make their opinion heard during the ASG meetings 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Graduate Education Building. !ere is a public comment section during each meeting where students can speak for two minutes before the legislation starts, said Mike Norton, ASG Chair of Senate.

Coker College’s Enactus team was named a regional champion at the recent En-actus United States Regional competition held in Atlanta, Ga.

“!rough Enactus, and with the support of fellow stu-dents, faculty members and leaders in our community, Coker students are learning to bring entrepreneurial energy to every aspect of their educa-tion,” said Coker College Presi-dent Robert Wyatt. “Indeed, not satis%ed with last year’s top-40 national standing, this year our team has raised the bar again. For them, ‘rede%n-ing ready,’ one of the hallmarks of a Coker education, extends well beyond developing the skills needed for tomorrow’s careers to a much more funda-mental challenge: reimagining the bedrock de%nitions of ser-vice and citizenship.”

!e event was one of 10 re-gional competitions being held in the United States this spring.

As a regional champion, the Coker College team will ad-vance to compete in the 2013 Enactus U.S. National Exposi-tion in Kansas City, Mo., May 21-23.

“Although this is our team’s third year, it is my %rst year with the program,” said En-actus Program Director Ben Chastain. “It’s been a privilege to be a part not only of the many worthy projects we’ve undertaken this year, but also to share in the personal and educational journeys of the members of this team. To-gether, and with the consistent support of President Wyatt, we have developed valuable new skills and a deeper awareness of the needs of our community. I could not be more proud of the team’s accomplishments, and I look forward to the na-tional competition in May.”

Coker is one of more than 500 programs in the United States. Participating students use business concepts to de-velop community outreach projects, transform lives and shape a better, more sustain-able world.

During this academic year, the 38-member Enactus Coker College team supported more than a dozen projects in the Pee Dee region and a new in-ternational enterprise, a com-mercial bakery and youth training program that is being established in Rwanda, Africa.

Among the new projects undertaken in Hartsville this year, the most noteworthy

project may have been the team’s administration and sta"ng of a Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School on Cok-er’s campus last summer.

Using a six-week, reading-intensive curriculum, the na-tionally acclaimed Freedom Schools are designed, in par-ticular, to help students over-come the decline in reading skills that commonly occurs during the summer months, when school is not in session. According to the results of the Gates-MacGinite Reading Tests, administered at the start of the program and, again, at its conclusion, the students in Coker’s program demonstrat-ed, on average, a two-month increase in reading pro%ciency, a %gure that represented the eighth largest increase among the 37 program sites tested this year.

Coker’s presentation team included Brianna Fowler, Eren Moses, Tyler Staub, Timmy Strickland, Ryan Vento, Taylor Willis and Tyler Senecal, who served as the team videog-rapher. Areyonna Keels and Michael Mazzola served as alternates for the presentation team.

Other members of Coker’s team included Lindsey Allen, Chelsea Asbill, Jessica Bedard, Lucas Britt, Jasmine Brown, Luke Coates, Jonathon Gard-ner, Jared Geizer, Austin Harp-er, Kaitlynn Jessup, Sarah Kin-sey, Matthew Kreider, Noah Lascell, Steven Marciano, Gregory Martin, Gabriel Mens, Andrew Morris, Elizabeth Morris, Mark Nankervis, Tony Nolan, Halee Polson, Malcome Reed, Samantha Scott, Austin Shockley, James Sweeney, An-drew Taske, Hannah Vadakin and Keon Wilson. Barb Stead-man served as a Sam Walton Fellow advising the team.

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Police ReportApril 12 and 13

Friday, April 12Terroristic #reatening -A sta# member in the Field House reported a student posted a threat-ening comment on Twitter. Update: Friday A student was arrested at a private residence o# campus. Minor In Possession Of Alcohol - A student was arrested in Maple Hill West Resi-dence Hall. - A student was arrested in the driveway at the John W. Tyson Poultry Science Building. - A student was arrested at the Lambda Chi Al-pha Fraternity House. Public Intoxication - A student was arrested at the Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon Fraternity House. #eft Of Property - A student reported someone stole his backpack while the backpack was unattended in Brough Commons Dining Hall.

Saturday, April 13Minor In Posses-sion Of Alcohol - A student was contact-ed in Lot 6 and trans-ported by CEMS for medical attention. Upon release from Washington Regional Medical Center around 22:19 the student was cited for the o#ense. - A student was arrested in the north parking lot at Kappa Sigma Frater-nity House. - A student was arrested at the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity House. - A student was arrested in Lot 44. Public Intoxication - A student was arrested at the Kappa Sigma Fraternity House.Criminal Mischief - A student reported a fraternity member punched and broke a window at the Sigma Nu Fraternity House.

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the words “entrepreneurial,” “action” and “us,” according to their website.

Willy Walton’s Chocolate Factory is one of the many projects that Enactus chap-ters around the world host every year. This project in particular has been copy-righted and is available for other Enactus chapters and educators to use.

Enactus’ projects aren’t limited to children, though. One chapter in Egypt, ac-cording to the Enactus web-site, took the many tons of trash in Cairo and created composting units. The de-mand for compost was high in Cairo, but what was avail-able was of low quality and high cost. Through this proj-ect, the new business is on

track to sell 324 tons of com-post. Garbage collectors have also increased their incomes by an average of 54 percent.

Willy Walton’s Chocolate Factory is an award-winning project. The UA chapter re-cently presented the project in Dallas and won the re-gional competition, allowing them to progress to the na-tional competition.

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of reducing pedestrian traf-%c across Harmon Avenue, which would increase pe-destrian safety and reduce vehicle tra"c delays,” We-solowski said.

Additionally, the bill also suggests that parking and transit look into “in-centives to use pay-on-foot stations.”

By encouraging more

students to use the pay-on-foot stations, ASG hopes to minimize tra"c caused by hold ups as people stop to pay at the exit gate.

Additionally, in order to further protect pedestrian safety, ASG passed another bill to support the establish-ment of a crosswalk signal at the Intersection of Lever-ett and Maple.

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Traveler Quote of the Day“I think it must be mandated because

colleges are expecting entering freshman to have already mastered these skills.”

Mike Duncan, Instructional IT Specialist“Class Required for High School Students” Page 1

We’re !nally getting close! It’s been a long year and, some-how it feels like an even longer semester. Second by second, we’re !ghting our way to the end of the road.

Although the weather hasn’t been totally cooperative, we’ve still been treated to enough sun-shine that we glimpse the teas-ing summer rays yet to come.

However, those toasty-yet-"eeting glimpses are starting to interfere with students’ abilities to concentrate. We are dream-ing of the lazy days of summer and are trying to project that re-laxed attitude onto our current schedules.

On the other hand, most students are approaching the busiest points in their semester.

If it seems like all of your classes have projects due at once, that’s not too far from the truth.

#e year is ending and the material you’ve discussed all se-mester is culminated into a !nal test, paper or project. It’s only fair to make the vast percentage of your grade cover the majority of the material.

We may not like the system but it’s something we simply have to deal with.

We know ahead of time that these projects are coming up. Professors wrote them into the syllabi long ago.

Honestly, though, I don’t know a single student who starts a !nal project early enough. We all know the project is coming and dutifully ignore it as long as possible.

It’s in our nature to procras-tinate this !nal project. Now, you are going to have to pay for it.

If you can’t !nd the gump-tion to !nish your schoolwork now, you’ll be lamenting it just as soon as !nals week hits.

Your transcript doesn’t re-

"ect the e$ort you put in for the majority of the semester. It re-"ects all the way through these !nal projects.

With a concentration of tests being at the tail end of the semester, your grades still have plenty of time to take a he%y plunge.

If you bomb things now, you’ll face additional stress when !nals week hits. Instead of having some wiggle room, you’ll need the perfect grade.

“Pursue passion, not A’s,” said Annie Paul in a Times ar-ticle.

A letter isn’t much of an in-centive. It’s not motivational when you’re burned out a%er a long semester. Instead, you need something to pull you through, passion.

#e nine-page study guide for your test won’t seem quite as daunting if you have optimism and passion for the topic.

Studying will rarely be your !rst choice for a Saturday eve-ning activity but it doesn’t have to be the worst option though.

Your current attitude will play a large role in how well you’re able to push through the end of the semester.

Having a positive outlook, or growth mindset, creates a “desire to improve creates a positive feedback loop that en-courages further learning and improvement, which promotes yet more desire to learn,” ac-cording to a FBI bulletin by Brian Fitch. “#e view students take of their abilities can pro-foundly a$ect their success and personal growth.”

When it comes down to it, no student has an abundance of downtime during the !nal month of school.

When you make the deci-sion to work on schoolwork, you won’t be the only one miss-ing out on a night down on Dickson. Certainly you won’t be the only one who should be having a productive night in.

Now isn’t the time for you to give up, no matter how allur-ing the sunshine may be. It may be di&cult, but keep pushing through. #is lingering semes-ter will soon be over.

Shawnya Wethington is a sophomore journalism, English major and marketing minor and a sta! writer for the Arkansas Traveler.

It’s Not Break Time Yet

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Everyone dreams of the perfect !rst date. #e only problem is we all have com-pletely di$erent ideas on what a “date” is.

My ideal !rst date would be simple. Going to see a lo-cal play and grabbing co$ee a%erwards would be perfec-tion.

However, in my college experience, a “date” has be-come inclusive of as a last minute text asking if I want to party with a guy and some of his friends. #en they hook you in with the, “I have drinks!”

In our day, dating has be-come a completely di$erent concept from what it used to be. For many students, the issue is that a !rst date, for some reason, screams immi-nent marriage.

“A lot of men in their 20s are reluctant to take the girl to the French restaurant, or buy them jewelry, because those steps tend to lead to ‘eventually, we’re going to get married,’ ” writer Lex Edness

said in a New York Times ar-ticle.

Many guys are reluctant to come o$ as too strong be-cause they don’t want girls to get the wrong idea. However, it’s not just the guys that are doing something wrong.

“I feel like a guy who re-ally likes a girl will take them on nice dates and treat them right. I think the changes are from girls who are so !xated on having a boyfriend that they’ll lower their standards on what’s acceptable in dat-ing or a relationship,” junior accounting student Brooke Anderson said. “Because of that, we have guys who don’t put in e$ort if they don’t think they have to and girls who don’t object to it so the pattern continues on what we have now.”

I have heard both girls and guys complain the other gender is complicated and they wish for a way around this confusing con"ict. It seems as if everyone is play-ing the dating game without establishing what they really want in the !rst place.

Dates which used to be

one on one are becoming more of a group activity.

“Dates still exist but it de-pends on the person. I gen-erally just start a relationship whether than wait to go on a series of dates,” said sopho-more Ashley Saldana. “I talk to the person for a certain amount of time and hang out with them either alone or in a group.”

Maybe we think being in a group will help us cop out of awkward situations. However, if we can’t get over the fear of being alone with someone, the relationship will never grow on a per-sonal level.

Another problem I see on the UA campus is the fact we no one can talk face to face anymore.

“I think that dating has de!nitely changed espe-cially with technology,” said sophomore Jennifer Greene. “People text to get to know each other instead of face to face interactions. I wish dat-ing could be more formal so that it could be clearer for everyone if you are actually in a relationship.”

From personal experi-ence, some guys can text as Prince Charming but in person barely string two sen-tences together.

Dating is too confusing. #ere are no rules, yet there are so many rules.

In my mind, need to quit the “he has to text me !rst” and “I have to pretend like I’m busy so he thinks I’m not desperate” or the ever so classic “if I pretend like I don’t care, they’ll want me more.”

Enough with the dating games! If you like someone, don’t work your way around it. Talk to them.

#e worst that can hap-pen is that they’ll say no, but wouldn’t you much rather just pop the question and get the answer opposed to wast-ing time playing hard to get?

Everyone loves a person with mystery. But when the mystery is why a person texts so well but can’t talk to you in person, it just isn’t fun.

Hayley Noga is a sopho-more and a sta! columnist for the Arkansas Traveler.

Hate the Game, Not the PlayerHayley NogaSta# Columnist

An Act of Terror Turns Family’s Day Grotesque and Unthinkable

Police sirens wail and aid cars scream to their destina-tions. TV stations interrupt regular programming and re-porters describe limbs blown from bodies. #e President delivers a hasty address on the latest act of terrorism.

Monday, this was Boston, when a gloriously sunny day, brisk and just a little breezy- near perfect for the running of the 117th Boston Mara-thon- turned grotesque and unthinkable. #is time, the killers didn’t just get inno-cents, they managed to dial up a brutal incongruity. #ey made a day of triumph for so many of the 27,000 competi-tors one that will forever be recalled for its tragedy.

We came back here to see our son Brett, a former runner at Gonzaga University, run his second marathon. Several of us gathered on Heartbreak Hill, another a mile from the !nish line downtown.

Like a lot of runners, my son approached the event with a religious ferocity, training through the most begrudging parts of a Seattle

winter, watching what he ate, intent on maximizing.

On Heartbreak Hill, he was fairly breezing, and the electricity of the event -- a course solid with spectators for 26 miles -- li%ed him through the sag of the last several miles. He ran 2 hours, 34 minutes, 7 seconds, 111th among males.

My sister and I wove through a neighborhood near Boston College to catch a train six miles east into the city for a post-!nish rendez-vous. It took a seventh train before we could squeeze on.

Downtown, we hit Boylston Street, where four-hour runners were coming in. Near the !nish, the sidewalks were sti"ing, onlookers a few deep and foot tra&c both ways. We came to a stand of VIP bleachers. In about 20 minutes, those people would be rocked by explosions in front of them.

By then, we’d made our way to a bar called Clery’s on a cross-street, Dartmouth, maybe three blocks away. Downstairs, Brett was forcing "uids with a couple of old col-lege roomies. It was a sprawl-ing place, crammed with run-

ners and supporters and the glow of celebration.

“Look,” somebody said. A big-screen TV behind us had the dreaded label, “Break-ing News.” Bombs in Copley Square. Dismembered bod-ies. Crazily, the soundtrack to the video initially stayed hooked up to a country-and-western song for several min-utes before they sync’d up the news audio to the TV.

Suddenly the party was over. People looked vacant-ly at each other. A Samuel Adams “26.2” -- brewed in honor of the marathon -- sat untouched.

An hour a%er the bomb-ings, the streets were thick with uncertainty. Cellphone service was interrupted for fear the perpetrators were us-ing them to orchestrate more violence, panicking callers concerned for those in the area.

Fire trucks and ambu-lances and police cars roared through every street near the !nish. #is, while run-ners made their way gingerly down sidewalks, wrapped in insulating space blankets.

Some train service was suspended for a couple of

hours. Transportation per-sonnel kept cool, handled in-quiries with aplomb and no-body got charged for riding a bus or a train.

It wasn’t the !rst time ter-rorism had struck a sport-ing event. Arab terrorists stormed the Olympic Village in 1972 and eventually killed 11 Israelis. #ere was the bomb detonated at Centen-nial Park at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

But sports has generally been apart from such evil, remarkably so, given 80,000-seat football stadiums and the o%en-relaxed security. I carry a bag with four pouches and can’t count the times one of them gets searched, three go unchecked and you’re waved through.

Now we were headed south to Rhode Island. A brilliant red-orange sunset painted the western sky. Four and a half hours a%er the ex-plosions turned a magical day macabre, I realized I didn’t know who had won the race.

Bud Withers is a colum-nist for the Seattle Times. "is story was retrieved from MCT Campus.

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Shawnya WethingtonSta# Columnist

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Companion Editor: Nick BrothersAssistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

Contrary to popular belief, yoga is not only for thin, fresh-faced women who shop at Ozark Natu-ral Foods, drink from mason jars, shower once a week and wear headscarves. !e world of yoga has expanded far beyond the bounds of its stereotype. Some might say yoga is the Taylor Swi" of the #t-ness industry–a major crossover.

Now we are even seeing NFL football teams, like the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles, incorporate yoga into their teams workouts. If you are more of a basketball fan, you might be interested to know that Shaquille O’neal and LeBron James are outspoken about the bene#ts they have reaped from practicing yoga, according to stacks.com.

!at being said, the stereotypical idea that only “dainty” women that do not like to “really” work-out are the only ones that do Yoga Yoga is extremely bene#cial to add to any exercise program and yoga isn’t exclusive. It can exist alongside li"ing, sports, running, etc.

Just by observing the population in the yoga classes I attend, weight li"ers seem to be the ones who stay the farthest away, but perhaps they are actually the bodies who need it the most. Li"ing weights tightens muscles, so therefore, if proper stretching is not implemented, the range of motion an individual has can become extremely limited said Lynn Burgess, certi#ed yoga instructor.

A study conducted by researchers at Spring#eld College concluded that by adding yoga, li"ers can still li" weights and also increase their range of mo-tion and as a result, speed up muscle recovery time.

!e same thing goes for bikers, runners, swim-mers and just about everything else. Along with any activity, comes the angst of tight muscles but by adding yoga, tightness can be greatly decreased and yoga does not stop there. It decreases the chance of injury, recovery time, joint agitation and mus-cle shortening. It increases performance, circula-tion, $exibility and strength according to Women’s Health.

Core strength is a priority in yoga because your core is the most vital part of your body. Yoga takes on a di%erent philosophy to strengthening that the core should be strengthened #rst and foremost and then everything else should follow. Instead of li"-ing to build strength in the appendages #rst, if you make core strength a priority it gives you a strong base.

If you want proof of all this, check out some physical therapy exercises that are recommended for injuries. !e majority of them are yoga poses.

If you are a tough dude and still feel like you wouldn’t be caught dead doing something like yoga, then try it with weights. Weights are a great complement to yoga. It is easy to incorporate bicep curls, rows, tricep extensions, shoulder presses and much more into a $ow.

“You can’t do yoga. You practice yoga. It can’t be won or beat. !ere are no trophies or gold stars. It’s one of the only physical activities where you check your ego at the door. But once you do, you’ll notice a shi" in your body, and muscles you never knew you had (no matter how much weight li"ing you do)” said Kathryn Budig, contributing Editor of Women’s Health.

So do as a true yogi and put aside all judgments and give it a try. Your body will thank you.

Classes are o%ered to students at the HPER and at the UREC gym for no cost. If you are weary about trying it in a class setting, it is easy to #nd videos and images online to help guide you.

Sam Williams is slumped over his desk in his mechanical engineering class. He can’t concentrate.

!e minutes have been dragging by, punctuated by occasional glances at the standard black-and-white clock on the wall behind his professor. When he’s not begging the clock to hurry up its ticking, he’s steal-ing subtle looks at his phone, which is lying $at behind his thick notebook.

For the last few weeks, Williams has noticed his attention span shrivel. With a simple tap of his #nger, he is absorbed in a world of memes, athletic injury reports and college stories of parties gone awry the pre-vious weekend. Williams can’t concentrate, because he is distracted by Twitter.

“!at was when I realized I probably need to take a break,” Williams says. “Whole lectures $ew by and all I could remember was that this basketball player tore his ACL, or this comedian said something funny, or my friend woke up in a laundromat.”

Williams is no stranger to social net-working. Like many current college stu-dents, he has spent hours upon boring hours in his dorm room poring over status updates and liking inconsequential pic-tures.

According to Nationwide, college stu-dents spend about seven hours a week on social-networking sites. Upon hearing this, Williams grins.

“I almost de#nitely surpassed that the least few weeks,” he says.

What caused this?“Most of my classes are hitting their

peaks at this point in the semester,” Wil-liams says. “Honestly, I should be studying more. But in reality, a lot of times Twitter and Facebook are therapeutic for me. At least I would like to think so.

“I don’t know if I’m addicted, per se. I just need to take a step back and take a break from all of this updating and moni-toring for the next few weeks.”

Down the hallway, out the door and about a #ve-minute walk from Bell Engi-neering Center, Jessie McMullen is franti-cally writing the notes she missed from the last slide.

!e sweltering heat inside the Walton

College of Business isn’t making things easier; McMullen had to rush the last few minutes to class, late because of a Facebook message her friend sent her.

Now, as her iPhone shows little except the endlessly circling series of lines that in-dicate the page is loading, she turns to Pin-terest to ease her impatience.

“My friend is crazy,” McMullen says. “She sent me a message on Facebook, because I didn’t answer her text. And all she wants to tell me is that she just pinned an ‘amazing recipe for margaritas’ on Pinterest.”

With Twitter apps on Facebook and vice versa, it is becoming increasingly easier to post to two, three or even four di%erent so-cial networks at the same time; Twitter is $ooded with housing ideas from Pinterest, Facebook walls are #lled with Tweets, and photos upon photos of cats and dogs and hamsters are pinned across numerous Pin-terest pro#les.

“It really does make me feel connected,” McMullen says as she glances at the over-head to make sure she didn’t miss another slide. Scrolling through her friend’s pins, she doesn’t see the recipe mentioned in the aforementioned Facebook message.

“But, as you can see now, and as most people know, it can also be a huge waste of

time,” she says. McMullen presses the hold button on her phone, determined to ignore it for the remainder of the class.

She’s getting better: Last week, she man-aged to avoid social networks throughout every class. Only on rare occasions, when the promising allure of a blueberry margar-ita beckons, does she fall prey to the addict-ing scroll of mobile social networking.

Behind her, another phone vibrates. Two classrooms down, someone leaves the room to return a missed call that’s taken prece-dence over pollution problems in the North Paci#c.

Williams leaves Bell Engineering Center and makes his way up the steep sidewalk next to the Chi Omega Greek !eater. !e sun is bright, too bright for Williams to read anything on his phone; he doesn’t mind.

“!is is refreshing,” he says. “It’s really nice out. I have grades and weekend plans to worry about, and no amount of checking Facebook or Twitter is going to change that.

“!e walks between class are probably the most refreshing parts of my weekdays. For a few minutes I don’t have to get an-noyed if Kobe hasn’t tweeted about his Achilles tendon or what Adam Scott thinks of his Masters-winning putt. I can just enjoy the walk.”

Kathleen Pait Sta" PhotographerMichaela Pecoraro logs on to Facebook while working in Mullins, and admits it de#nitely gets in the way of studying.

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Mike MahardySta! Writer

!e concept of #nding balance within an out#t is all about making a statement. Whenever getting dressed for an event it, is so important to feel like when you walk in the room you will steal the show. !e best way to achieve that feeling is by hav-ing the con#dence that what you’ve cho-sen to wear is a direct representation of who you are and what you are about as an individual. Today is all about learning how to make a head-to-toe look versus just trying to pick one point or area of focus when coordi-nating an out#t.

As children, when we are introduced to the art of putting clothes together our par-ents usually ask us, “What do you want to wear?” But making the decision to feature a sparkly shirt as a child is very di%erent than choosing a full out#t to wear as an adult. !e transition between adolescence and adulthood can be a di&cult one and #nding your fashion identity is usually not at the top of any young teen’s list of priorities.

Statement pieces can be de#ned a num-ber of ways. A general de#nition would be that statement pieces are an area of focus that the wearer would like to have featured in their out#t. My personal de#nition is that statement pieces are items that, when put on, shine and bring an out#t full circle or together. No matter your choice of de#nition, either way a statement piece is something unique, special, and perhaps even one-of-a-kind.

Statement pieces are items that you don’t mind paying a little bit more money for be-cause you are con#dent that this item is going to enhance your wardrobe, add joy to your life, and be something that makes you stand out from all others around you when you wear it. By the time you’re an adult, you’ve mastered to a certain extent the process of identifying what

statement pieces are and what items look great on you, but now there is a new skill to hone.

!is new skill would be mastering the tech-nique of piecing together a cohesive head-to-toe out#t that is making one uni#ed statement. !e art of making a head-to-toe statement takes more e%ort and understanding than just looking for one thing that looks great and re-lying on it to do all the work for your out#t. A head to toe statement shines in any light and every individual piece looks fabulous and amazing. Whether you start at the top with the blouse, or from the bottom with the shoes your

statement will still speak volumes. !e great part about having a head to toe statement look is that no matter what angle you’re seen from you will still look like a million books and more.

!e #rst step in putting together a head-to-toe look is having a keen understanding of balance and how to have a good deal of restraint when it comes to choosing what to wear. A lot of times as young fashion #ends, we go shopping for a speci#c out#t to wear for an event instead of purchasing individual pieces to just have in our clothing arsenal for future reference.

!is type of shopping breeds bad clothing cohesion habits. You will never learn how to

put together individual items of separate textures, shapes, and palettes until you purchase each individually. A good sug-gestion to take note of is to not have too

much of one style or themed item on. If you have on a top with spikes or jeweled embel-lishments, do not pick shoes or accessories with those same exact spikes or embellish-ments. Pairing items together in that fashion

screams immaturity and a lack of individual and personal style. I suggest a more creative approach of pairing abstract and more com-plex items together to show a full range of creative expression. Just because one of your pieces may not have a lot of fancy doo-dads doesn’t mean that it does not speak volumes when worn. A good way to practice this bal-ance is to not wear all new items but instead mix and match new and old pieces.

!is type of pairing forces you to rely on your true in-depth knowledge of your closet. One #nal thing to take note of is to step away from an out#t once put together and come back to it. Editing will be one of the best skills you can attain because sometimes our #rst feel-ing about an out#t may not be our #nal feeling.

Putting together head-to-toe statement looks requires thought, precision and re$ec-tion. But the more you do it the better you get at it, so get out there and start making state-ments today.

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

I have a mantra that I try to live by: Always expect the worst, so that you’ll either be correct or pleasantly sur-

prised.Sometimes I forget about

that phrase and instead get my hopes up, put all my eggs in one basket, sit back and just expect my favorite sports teams and people to do as well as the media says that they will.

Have you noticed that in the case of Arkansas, that just doesn’t seem to work out?

!e Razorback baseball team ended their last season on a fairly high note — the Hogs earned a third-place "nish in the College World Series, which is quite a feat, as the Hogs have only made

seven appearances.!ose seven appearances

put Arkansas in the top 10 teams who have made the most appearances in the CWS without actually earning a title.

!at high note dri#ed over into the 2012-2013 season and landed the Hogs at No. 1 in preseason polls. At "rst, it felt as if we deserved to be ranked highly.

But a few weeks into the season a#er some struggles in nonconference games, it felt like a No. 1 ranking might have brought the Hogs more pressure than con"dence.

A bout in Arizona shot the Hogs right down to No. 19. !at’s not where the supposed No. 1 team should be, though, should it?

Slowly but steadily the Hogs have been crawl-ing back to where everyone thought they should be, and if the trend continues, the Hogs may still have a chance at go-ing for the CWS title again.

I’m not sure why I even dare mention the 2012 Ra-zorback football season, but the Hogs "t the bill in that category too.

!e Razorbacks were meant for glory that season,

they really were, but unfortu-nate circumstances wreaked havoc on the team.

At No. 10 going into the "rst game of the season — a whopping win over Jackson-ville State, 49-24 — it start-ed to look like a new coach would not be a problem for the Hogs.

Out spilled all the eggs in that one basket and suddenly, following an overtime loss to ULM, the Hogs dropped out of the rankings, never to be heard from again.

Why does the nation put so much faith in the rank-ings? !e more I watch Ar-

kansas start o$ so well and then plummet to their rank-ings death, the less I trust our high rankings.

As so many coaches say, the rankings are nothing but numbers on a paper that show what is expected of them. !e numbers don’t prove how skilled — or unskilled, in these cases — a team might really be.

Tamzen Tumlison is a writer for the Arkansas Trav-eler. Her column appears ev-ery other Wednesday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

Rankings Don’t Always Indicate Player Skill LevelsCOMMENTARY

CLUB SPORTATHLETICS

Only a year ago, a few stu-dents had a dream to bring the sport they loved back into the picture, and ended up starting a club sport team.

Despite being one of the newest sports clubs at the University of Arkansas, the club baseball team has already made signi"cant strides towards being a com-petitive group of players.

!e club was founded by current president and vice president Jonathan Benson and Casey Wilt, and has now blossomed to 15 team mem-bers.

“I played in high school and loved it, and I was just looking for a way to keep playing in college. I saw there wasn’t a club baseball team so I "gured I’d get one started,” Benson said.

!e team competes under the National Club Baseball Association Division II ban-ner. !ey play in the South VI conference that features club teams from Missouri and Arkansas such as South-east Missouri, Central Mis-souri, Pulaski Technical Col-lege and Missouri State.

!e team has seen mod-erate successes in its "rst full year as a program. !ey are 3-3 in conference play and 4-12 overall in the spring 2013 season according to the NCBA’s website.

Because of three forfeited games from Pulaski Tech, the Razorbacks only other victo-

ry came in a big 8-6 win over Division I Missouri.

“We beat Missouri, but other than that we’ve had some pretty heartbreaking losses,” Benson said.

!e team is still in the early stages of what believes to be a promising future. !e more the word of the club spreads to high schoolers who look to continue their baseball careers, the more the team will continue to strengthen.

Almost all of the team members played baseball in high school and pass the word onto prospective Ar-kansas students about the perks of the club baseball team.

“We are helping to talk to guys at orientation and checking out guys at local high schools,” Benson said.

Word of mouth is the main way the team has "elded new members, but they have also said that Club Sports has

been a tremendous help in the developmental stages of the program.

“We are working to grow to where we can "eld a competitive team and host tryouts,” Benson said. “We would like to see enough players to where we could have two teams compete in the NCBA.”

!e Razorbacks practice Tuesdays and !ursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the White River base-

ball complex in Fayetteville, where they also play home games as well.

Dues are $250 for the year to help cover travel expenses. Bats, balls and helmets are provided so only a glove is needed to participate.

!e season wraps up a#er the next couple weekends, so check the team’s Facebook group or get in touch with Benson or Wilt if interested in joining the team for next season.

Club Baseball Team Making Big Strides

Former Razorback Pat Summerall died at the age of 82 Tuesday a#ernoon.

!e Florida native turned down a chance to play bas-ketball at Kentucky under coach Adolph Rupp to play football, basketball and base-ball as a Razorback.

Summerall served as a defensive end, tight end and place-kicker for the Hogs be-tween 1949 and 1951, when he graduated with a degree in education.

In 1951, Summerall kicked the game-winning "eld goal in Arkansas’ upset of No. 4 Texas, the "rst time the Razorbacks ever beat the Longhorns in Fayetteville.

He tried his hand at pro-fessional baseball in the St. Louis Cardinals organization before being selected in the fourth round of the 1952 NFL dra# by the Detroit Lions.

He spent one season with the Lions, but saw no play-ing time because of an injury, before being traded to the Chicago Cardinals, where he played from 1953-57.

Summerall "nished his playing career with the New York Giants in 1961.

Despite a season when he

Former Hog Summerall Dead at 82

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Cameron McCauleySta! Writer

Kathleen Pait Sta" PhotographerMembers of the club sport baseball team gather at Fayetteville High School Saturday, April 13 to compete in a match against Southwest Missouri State.

TRACK & FIELD TRACK & FIELD

!e No. 2 Arkansas men’s track and "eld team will travel to Eugene, Ore., this weekend to compete in a dual meet against No. 4 Or-egon.

Arkansas is coming o$ of a "rst-place tie at the John McDonnell Invitational in Fayetteville where the Hogs beat out No. 1 Texas A&M to share the win with No. 24 Minnesota. !e "nal score of the meet was Arkansas and Minnesota with 137 points over A&M’s 129.

“It showed a little to me that our team is taking care of business and preparing themselves to compete and always looking for national qualifying marks or records,” head coach Chris Bucknam said. “We moved some kids around to di$erent events, but they all competed well and that was encouraging.”

Oregon has also recently won over A&M at the Pepsi Team Invitational held at Eu-

gene, Ore., on April 6. !e Ducks outscored the Aggies 194.5 to 180.5.

!e Ducks have nine ath-letes ranked in the top 10 na-tionally in their events. !is includes Parker Stinson with a 10,000-meter time of 28 minutes, 34.71 seconds, the No. 1 time in the nation with Arkansas’ Solomon Haile trailing with the No. 5 time of 28:56.92.

Oregon also has Johna-than Cabral with a 13.33 in the 110-meter hurdles, which gives him the No. 1 time for this season.

!e Ducks’ 4x400 relay is ranked No. 8 nationally, and they have Mike Berry, who posted a No. 8 400-meter time of 46.20.

Oregon also has two 1,500-meter runners who have posted top-10 times: No. 4 Matt Miner with a time of 3:42.60 and No. 9 Elijah Greer with a time of 3:43.56.

!e other top-10 perfor-mances for Oregon are Sam Crouser with a No. 3 dis-tance of 75.80 meters in the

Razorbacks Face Top-10 Team In OregonBen EnyartSta! Writer

!e Razorback women’s track and "eld team is prepar-ing for meets to launch many of its individuals into national quali"er status, beginning with the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif.

“!is is the time of year where we’re still continuing to try to get our kids qualifying for the NCAA regional meet, because that’s the gatekeeper to the National Champion-ships,” head coach Lance Har-ter said.

!e Mt. SAC Relays is the largest invitational in the Unit-ed States and typically features 12,000 competitors, who come from “all points in the world,” Harter said.

!e Razorbacks will have a taste of international competi-tors rather than solely those from other colleges, as some will come in from China, Ja-pan and Mexico.

“It’s a really exciting meet, it’s a very fast track and it’s an opportunity for us to see some of the best collegiates in the U.S., and hitting head to head

with them,” Harter said.Arkansas got a small

glimpse of the action the team will face in California during the John McDonnell Invita-tional home meet over the weekend, including competi-tion with top teams in the na-tion.

Jessica Kamilos debuted in

the 3,000-meter steeplechase and gave the Hogs a "rst-place "nish with a 10 minute, 22.14 second "nish, which was 20 seconds faster than the sec-ond-place "nisher.

“She is an exceptional ath-lete, and if there’s a niche that is perfectly designed for her, it’s the steeplechase,” Harter

said. Kamilos ran the steeple-

chase “experimentally” so she could get some experience with the event before heading to Mt. SAC to compete in it for a qualifying time, Harter said.

!e Razorbacks are not a

Hogs on the Road for the WeekendTamzen TumlisonSenior Sta! Writer

Tamzen TumlisonSenior Sta! Writer

Haley MarkleAsst. Sports Editor

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Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerHead women’s track coach, Lance Harter, speaks at the Olympic press conference, Tuesday, April 16.

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Photo Courtesy of Associated PressIn this Nov. 8, 1959, #le photo, New York Giants place kicker Pat Summerall shows o" kicking shoe for photographers in the locker room after making three #eld goals to help the team to a 9-3 win over the Chicago Cardinals at Yankee Stadium in New York.

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went 30-for-30 on extra point attempts, Summerall was bet-ter known for his career as a broadcaster.

He worked for CBS Sports for 32 years during which time he was not only the voice of the network’s NFL telecasts, but also for the U.S.

Open in tennis and the Mas-ters.

Summerall moved to Fox in 1994 and called NFL games for eight years before an-nouncing his retirement a#er Super Bowl XXXVI.

A#er that, he worked on regional telecasts until 2006

and broadcast the Cotton Bowl from 2007-10.

In 1971, Summerall was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and in 1999 he joined the likes of Jack Buck and Harry Caray in the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame.

team designed for dual meets, as the team focuses more on distances and sprints rather than throwing events. !e coaches have done this on purpose, though they know it would set the team up for some losses along the way.

“We’re going to get beat pe-riodically; in fact, next week we’ll probably get pummelled,”

Harter said.Makeba Alcide, the NCAA

leader in the heptathlon, will not be competing again un-til the Southeastern Confer-ence championships. !ough Alcide is a threat in multiple events, her goal is to make it to the SEC and NCAA cham-pionships and not risk injury before, Harter said.

“If we’re going to be com-petitive at the SEC, we need to have as many national-caliber quali"ers as possible,” Harter said.

!e Razorbacks will com-pete in the Mt. SAC Relays April 18-20 in Walnut, Calif., and will also compete in the Michael Johnson Classic April 20 in Waco, Texas.

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javelin, Dakotah Keys with the No. 6 spot in the decath-lon with a score of 7,743 and Greg Skipper with a distance of 65.96 meters for the No. 9 spot in the hammer.

“If the weather is good, I anticipate a good crowd,” Bucknam said. “And you have two classic, elite programs going a#er each other and so our kids are excited about that.”

!e Hogs have six athletes ranked in the top 10 nation-ally in their events, which in-cludes Kemoy Campbell, who still has the No. 1 time in the 5,000-meter with his time of

13:32.82.In the long jump, Ar-

kansas has Tarik Batchelor at the No. 3 spot with a 7.90 meter jump that he posted last weekend at the John Mc-Donnell Invitational. Also at this past weekend’s meet, the Hogs’ 4x100 relay ran a time of 39.51 for the No. 6 time na-tionally.

Arkansas also has the No. 3 spot in the pole vault with Andrew Irwin and his 5.56-meter vault, Caleb Cross and his No. 10 400-meter hurdle time of 51.08 and Haile with his No. 5 time in the 10,000-meter.

!is meet will be a chance for the Hogs to see where the team is, because unlike past meets, this upcoming week-end features all the top ath-letes in their main events in order to gain a victory over Oregon.

“You will see on Satur-day,” Bucknam said. “You will have a pretty good idea a#er this Saturday’s meet what our guys will be running at the SEC meet. We’re going to put an SEC type lineup into this weekend. We’re going to put the guys in their strengths. We’re going to try to win this meet.”

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Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerHead men’s track coach, Chris Bucknam, speaks at the Olympic press conference, Tuesday, April 16.